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Does Siôn use Tesctio? |
4. dmh says: |
You could use the Polish ł for ll. |
5. Rhys – I haven’t used tecstio because my old phone was, well, too old and didn’t have the functions. I’ll try it with my new one. Diolch am fy atgoffa – ydy e’n gweithio (does it work?) |
I’ll try and find the Polish ‘l’, I also use ‘x’ for ‘ch’ as this is the letter in Greek and Cyrillic for this sound. Apparently William Morgan wanted to use ‘x’ when tranlating the Bible into Welsh in 1588, but there wasn’t enough of the ‘x’ typefaces in English for the Bible, which was printed in London, to use. |
The trouble with double letters is you have to hang around for hours before you can type the second of the double letters otherwise you’ll get the next letter in the alphabet e.g. ‘b’ rather than the secon ‘a’. Maybe I should just chill out a bit! |
6. Rmss says: |
I have that all the time when typing Dutch with my phone, I have to wait way to long for the double letters, or a letter under the same button. Normally I just click the navigation button so I can move on faster. |
7. Caenwyr says: |
I usually use T9 predictive text input, which works fine in Dutch. I have a little tip though. If you prefer not to use predictive text input and want to insert two characters that are on the same button (like the ‘tt’ in button, or even worse, the ‘utt’), you can type the first letter, then hit the right-button (y... |
8. When I text (in Dutch) I usually don’t leave out the double letters, it is quite annoying to wait for them but I use T9. |
If I have to get some letters gone for the sake of sending only 1 sms and not two, I’d rather leave out the “e” in the verb ending or other vocals in common words. |
Like “komn” for “komen”, “mr” for “maar”… |
Oh and by the way, isn’t it “nuisance” instead of nuicance”? |
9. Bruno says: |
In Portuguese, there is only a couple of double consonants (‘ss’ and ‘rr’), but still there are a bunch of same-button combinations of letters. For mobile texting, that hasn’t been a problem, since T9 and other such typing systems have become quite widespread. Like the Dutch guys, we tend to abbreviate words, often... |
As for the web, there are basically three internet argots in Brazil: one as old as Usenet and IRC which is pretty much just an abbreviating convention, and two modern, tiop and miguxo. Both address any piece of (arguably) unnecessary typing. Miguxo, for instance, replaces ‘ss’ (and often the single ‘s’ too) with a ... |
tiop, on the other hand, tends to either not double the ‘ss’ (whether the consonant is voiceless or voiced can be infered from context by a native speaker), thus: ‘assim’ –> ‘asim’. Alternatively, the ‘soft s’ sound is represented in tiop with a c cedilla, like this: ‘assim’ –> ‘açim’. tiop is an argot develo... |
10. Liesbeth says: |
I’m a native Dutch speaker. we generally don’t leave out double letters, because double letters in Dutch are functional and change the meaning of a word. |
The difference between 1 and 2 vowels is between short and long pronounciation – so “o” and “oo” is like “o” and “ô” in Welsh. |
pot = /pot/ = pot in English; |
poot = /pôt/ = paw in English. |
The difference between 1 and 2 consonants is between open and closed syllables or between present and past tense. |
zaken = /zâken/ = things in English; |
zakken = /zaken/ = to lower in English. |
poten = /pôten/ = paws in English = plural of poot /pôt/. |
potten = /poten/ = pots in English = plural of pot /pot/; |
antwoorden = answer in English; |
antwoordden (identical pronounciation) = answered in English. |
So the difference between single and double letters is a key concept in Dutch, and most people feel this instinctively and therefor don’t leave out double letters. If they do, it’s rather because they can’t spell and/or are lowly educated and/or don’t have any linguistic feeling, and not deliberately to save space. |
What does happen in Dutch sms-language: |
first of all, Dutch sms language is very English-based, so a lot of abbreviations come from English: cu (see you), lu (love you), ayor (at your own risk), btw (by the way), rofl (rolling over the floor laughing), and litterally dozens more. |
replacing the indefinite article by 1 |
replacing parts of words by numbers |
e.g. 8 = acht; wacht = w8 |
abbreviating adverbs |
e.g. zeer (very in English) = zr |
abbreviating prepositions |
e.g. naar (indicating a direction) = nr |
abbreviating pronouns |
e.g. ik (I in English) = k |
mijn (my in English) = mn |
abbreviating nouns |
e.g. Antwerpen = A’pen |
abbreviating verbs |
e.g. verb ending -en = -n |
Nature Notes – Lakes have frozen over, or will soon |
Hilks Lake and Goose Lake near the western edge of Waconia, and Swede Lake near Watertown all froze over Nov. 24 and have kept their ice covers. Some other area lakes froze over in late November and opened up again a few days later, and some are freezing-up for the first time this week. |
Freezing and the formation of ice covers on lakes or other waters is a process controlled in large part by a unique characteristic of water. Most materials, for example mercury in a thermometer, shrink as they cool. Water also shrinks as it cools from summer temperatures to 39 degrees F. As the cool water sinks it mixe... |
For this reason, water cooler than 39 degrees is lighter than water at 39 degrees and will float on the surface. Ice forms at 32 degrees, so on the first calm, freezing day or night after the lakes and ponds reach 39 degrees throughout, ice covers will form. The temperature of the water just in contact with the ice she... |
If water cooler than 39 degrees continued to shrink and to become more dense and sink, ice would form from the bottom of a pond, lake or stream, rather than the top. Just think, our lakes and other bodies of water could have permanent ice covered by a layer of water in the summer. |
Always remember, it takes at least 4 inches of new solid ice in contact with stationary freshwater for safe walking, skating and ice fishing. A snowmobile takes 6 inches of ice, 8 to 12 inches are needed for a car or small truck, and 12 to 15 inches for a medium-size pickup. You don’t want to fall through the ice as co... |
What’s happening outdoors now? |
Pairs of great horned owls can be heard duet hooting, probably establishing nesting territories or at least keeping in touch. American tree sparrows, dark-eyed juncos and northern cardinals are the first and last birds at feeding stations each day. They begin coming to feeders about 25 minutes before sunrise and contin... |
Red squirrels are active all winter. They prefer evergreen forests, which explains why they’re far less abundant in southern Minnesota than in the north. Flying squirrels come nightly to a good number of wildlife feeding stations. They typically arrive about 5 p.m. to dine on sunflower seeds, peanut butter and suet. Fl... |
On Dec. 13 a year ago |
We had a cloudy, foggy day with a low temperature of 35 and a high of 38 degrees. Just traces of snow remained. Some oaks, like swamp white and northern red, continued holding a good share of their brown leaves. Lake Waconia had been frozen over since Dec. 6, and Burandt Lake since Dec. 2. |
"Visitors can still enjoy and participate in the same activities that they did when the lake was full -- boating, fishing, hiking, camping and exploring," says Kitty L. Roberts, recreation area superintendent. |
But it all depends on the weather. |
In February, the water level stood at 3,561 feet, just 71 feet above the lowest point at which the dam can generate electricity. "If it drops below that, we're out of business until the lake comes back up," said Tom Ryan, a hydrologist for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, which built and operates the dam. |
Despite heavy winter snowfall in southwest Utah, Ryan said, it looked like an average year for runoff, which routinely plumps the level of Lake Powell in July. He expects the reservoir to rise about 40 to 45 feet by then, though at that rate it still would take years for the lake to refill. |
"And if we have a hot, dry spring, that estimate will be eroded. There's still a lot of uncertainty," he said. |
From the dam, John and I drove five miles north to Wahweap Marina, the winter nesting place of huge, luxurious houseboats, some with DVDs, staterooms and fireplaces. There we claimed the far more modest 18-foot powerboat I had reserved for the trip up the reservoir. |
Opponents of the man-made reservoir call it "Lac Latrine" and "Lake Foul," but I can't agree with their aesthetic evaluation. It's majestic, with tucked-away coves and beaches backed by surrealistically shaped mesas and buttes. |
On the way north we saw Lake Powell's bathtub ring, a white calcium carbonate deposit left by the receding water, distinct in some places but already wearing away in others. |
At Dangling Rope Marina, we stopped for a $100 fill-up. The attendant, who hadn't seen any visitors in days, told us about a good place to camp in Oak Canyon, a few miles up on the east side of the lake. |
While tying up the boat there, I got caught in some Lake Powell quicksand, which has the consistency of cellulite and is sticky enough to suck a short person, like me, in to the thighs. |
John and I pitched our tents, cooked up one of those wretched, dehydrated backpackers' dinners and went to bed. Unfortunately, it snowed that night and my rented tent leaked, leaving me with stiff joints, a sour mood and a wet sleeping bag. I was ready to abort the trip in the morning, but John thought we should at lea... |
So I went on to Lake Powell's confluence with the Escalante. Along the way, we passed Hole-in-the-Rock Arch, where Mormon pioneers cut a treacherously steep wagon trail from the plateau above to the river in 1880, and the mouth of the San Juan River on the east side. |
We went astray a few times but finally found the Escalante and turned into it. Between periods of drizzle, the sun came out, revealing bright blue skies and scudding clouds. But the river's meeting at Davis Gulch was an ugly scene, choked with flood-strangled cottonwood trees. |
Then I saw what I assumed to be a hallucination: a man in a blue shirt, picking his way across the quicksand. |
It was Wolverton. He had kindled a campfire up the gulch, where I warmed my feet and hands, dried out my sleeping bag and decided that, having come this far, it would be folly not to continue. |
Exploring the depths |
As the only backcountry ranger in the Escalante River region of Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Wolverton has been keeping a close watch on sinking water levels in area tributaries. But the last time he climbed down into Davis Gulch and Fiftymile Canyon was last summer. Like us, he was eager to see what new glori... |
La Gorce Arch came first, a triangular window on the sky framed in lustrous sandstone, 100 feet wide and 75 feet high. Just a few years ago when Davis Gulch was fuller, it could be reached only by kayak. Now, as nature intended, you have to crane your neck to see it from the creek bed. |
Hiking up the gulch was sloppy, so we exchanged our boots for rubber sandals and neoprene socks. Sometimes the walls of the canyon narrowed, forcing us to wade in the cold water. Then they'd open back up, flooding the chasm with warming sunlight from the plateau hundreds of feet above. |
Why recycle electronics? - KWWL - Eastern Iowa Breaking News, Weather, Closings |
Why recycle electronics? |
Electronics are complex devices which are made of a wide variety of material constituents. Some of the constituents, such as lead, nickel, cadmium, and mercury, could pose risks to human health or the environment if mismanaged at their end-of-life. |
EPA is very concerned about ensuring the proper management of used electronics and has undertaken important work to increase the collection and responsible recycling of used electronics. |
As for managing electronics disposed in the US in landfills, we believe that disposal of electronics in properly managed municipal solid waste landfills does not threaten human health and the environment. |
The results of landfill leachate studies, suggest that currently allowed disposal of electronics — including those containing heavy metals — in modern municipal solid waste landfills are protective of human health and the environment. |
However, we strongly support keeping used electronics out of landfills, to recover materials and reduce the environmental impacts and energy demands from mining and manufacturing. |
Electronics are made from valuable resources, such as precious metals, copper, and engineered plastics, all of which require considerable energy to process and manufacture. Recycling electronics recovers valuable materials and as a result, we reduce greenhouse gas emissions, reduce pollution, save energy, and save reso... |
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Manual of the New Zealand Flora/Lineæ |
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Manual of the New Zealand Flora by Thomas Frederick Cheeseman |
Order XII: Lineæ |
Herbs or shrubs, rarely trees. Leaves alternate, simple, usually entire; stipules present or wanting. Flowers regular, hermaphrodite. Sepals 5, rarely 4, free or coherent at the base, imbricate. Petals the same number, hypogynous or slightly perigynous, imbricate, often contorted. Stamens as many as the petals or twice... |
A small order, scattered over the whole world, the herbaceous species mainly temperate, the shrubby almost all tropical. Genera 14; species about 140. The common flax, Linum usitatissimum, so valuable from the tenacity of its fibre and its oily seeds, is the most important member of the order. The Peruvian Erythroxylon... |
1. LINUM, Linn. |
Herbs, rarely shrubby at the base. Leaves usually alternate, narrow, quite entire; stipules generally wanting. Flowers in panicled or racemose or fascicled cymes. Sepals 5, entire. Petals 5, contorted in æstivation, fugacious. Stamens 5, alternate with the petals, hypogynous, usually connate at the base, often alternat... |
A genus of 80 species or more, mostly natives of temperate or subtropical climates. The single indigenous species is endemic. |
(The Australian L. marginale, A. Cunn., is now plentifully naturalised in many parts of New Zealand, especially to the north of Taranaki and Hawke's Bay. It can be distinguished from L. monogynum by its smaller size, more slender habit, and small pale-blue flowers.) |
1. L. monogynum, Forst. Prodr. n. 145.—A very variable perfectly glabrous perennial herb, sometimes woody at the base; stems few or many, simple or branched, erect or spreading, 6–24 in. high. Leaves numerous, scattered, ascending, 14–1 in. long, linear-oblong to linear-lanceolate or linear-subulate, 1–3-nerved. Flower... |
North and South Islands, Stewart Island, Chatham Islands: Abundant along the coasts, and occasionally found inland, ascending to almost 2000 ft. on the mountains of the South Island. October–January. |
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